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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To get ready for a yuwipi meeting, what did the floor need to be covered with?
(a) Dung.
(b) Sagebrush.
(c) Feathers.
(d) Buffalo hides.

2. What does the name wicasa wakan mean?
(a) Holy man.
(b) Conjurer.
(c) Medicine man.
(d) Witch doctor.

3. What does Lame Deer say is the name of a man who "uses the power of the rawhide and the stones to find and to cure"?
(a) Waanazin.
(b) Wapiya.
(c) Waayatan.
(d) Yuwipi.

4. What did the Indians name "holy dog"?
(a) The bull.
(b) The wolf.
(c) The buffalo.
(d) The horse.

5. Lame Deer states that many white men think that the sun dance is an initiation of what?
(a) Of a warrior ready to kill for the first time.
(b) Of a old medicine man passing on his power to a younger medicine man.
(c) Of a young man growing into manhood.
(d) Of a man and a woman growing together in love.

6. Lame Deer talks about one of the Sioux's greatest holy men whose name was Chips. How old was Chips' grandson, Godfrey, when the power was passed on to him?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Fourteen.

7. In Chapter 12, Lame Deer talks about one thing that made him sad, that the town of Winner was surrounded on all sides by what?
(a) White cattle ranchers.
(b) Gates and locks.
(c) Fences.
(d) Boundry lines.

8. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A bear.
(d) A cat.

9. In the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer states that the first thing the white man usually asks about is what?
(a) Peyote.
(b) The peace pipe.
(c) Buffalo skins.
(d) Green frog skin.

10. Lame Deer states that their tribe's oldest lady had a face like what?
(a) The Badlands.
(b) Rippled water.
(c) The rock covered mountains.
(d) The wrinkled sheet.

11. Lame Deer stated that the only place his tribe could hold their sun dance was where?
(a) An open field behind their reservation.
(b) A front porch of one member of the tribe.
(c) The old fairgrounds.
(d) In an abandoned warehouse.

12. How many horses did Lame Deer's father have?
(a) Over two hundred.
(b) Over three hundred and fifty.
(c) Over three hundred.
(d) Over two hundred and fifty.

13. In the tale about the Stone Boy, what does the young girl swallow?
(a) An arrow.
(b) A boy.
(c) A stone.
(d) A horse.

14. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?
(a) Thunderbirds.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Indian babies.
(d) Tipis.

15. Which direction did the sweat lodge face?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Pete Catches talks about his sister eating what animal's heart?

2. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?

3. Lame Deer tells a story about his uncle and how his horse's rope was pulled into a badger's hole. What did his uncle have to do with the rope?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 6, Lame Deer mentions a pot with plenty of what inside?

5. In Chapter 8, Lame Deer talks about a young Navajo boy and girl in their apartment in their city. What color of blanket did he put over this young couple?

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